waterlily pond green harmony claude monet

waterlily pond green harmony claude monetThe arched shape of this bridge earned it the name "Japanese bridge". Claude Monet was in fact inspired by one of the Japanese prints in his private collection. The exuberance of the vegetation, however, refers more to Mediterranean gardens. The painter emphasizes here a general harmony through the symmetry of the composition of the impressionnist painting by using the format of the canvas with the bluish green cameo, aquatic plants, reeds, and irises

while the grass seems to be leaning to the right

also a painter

Vincent Van Gogh painted this work in the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

he met one of the most delightful characters of the Parisian artistic milieu of the 1880s and 1890s

including The Port of St Tropez for example

He became one of its most illustrious representatives

absorbed in his task

three paths going in different directions

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Of this animation which could have been turbulent

as is also the case for Heavy Red

triangles and three black lines